A dark and hard-edged horror-romance exploring themes of spirituality, romantic relationships and mental illness, "A Dog Among Thorns" chronicles a paranormal love triangle in a post-apocalyptic world. Miriam, a demon dispatched to the city of Kaiser, is charged with tempting young men in turbulent relationships to commit suicide. Her next victim, the sinful Jacob Gottschalk, seems an easy mark until she falls in love with him and raises the ire of Elizabeth Nicks, his wife and Kaiser's Constable. Their intertwining destinies transform into a dangerous tempest of gory violence, romantic intrigue, shifting political alliances and incursions of spiritual beings into the material world. Welcome to my collection of emotionally charged novels involving turbulent romantic relationships, the spiritual and supernatural realms and occasional forays into the mundane world. Dystopian settings are the norm though expect periodic time warps back to my favorite decade, the 1980s. Moral dilemmas abound, love is complex, lives are lost and living happily ever after always comes with a cost . . . if it is indeed possible at all."What I have written I have written." ~ Pontius Pilate, The Gospel of John 19:22. A dark and hard-edged horror-romance exploring themes of spirituality, romantic relationships and mental illness, the "A Dog Among Thorns" series chronicles a paranormal love triangle in a post-apocalyptic world. Miriam, a demon dispatched by her evil Master to the city of Kaiser, falls in love with the sinful Jacob Gottschalk, the married man she must tempt into committing suicide.
